William Trevor

1928–2016

Irish novelist and short-story writer, born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He read history at Trinity College Dublin and worked as a sculptor, teacher and advertising copywriter before writing full time, and later settled in England. His books include The Old Boys, The Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune, Felicia’s Journey and The Story of Lucy Gault, and he won the Whitbread Prize three times. He was made an honorary KBE in 2002 and died in November 2016. Love and Summer (2009), set in an Irish town in the 1950s, was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of William Trevor’s life

Works

• The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
• Love and Summer (2009)

Prizes

• Love and Summer — The Booker Prize 2009: Longlist
• The Story of Lucy Gault — The Booker Prize 2002: Shortlist, Longlist